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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin Publisher Comments Soon to be a major motion picture, Lincoln, from Steven Spielberg, with a screenplay by Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning writer Tony Kushner, and starring Daniel Day-Lewis as the President and Sally Field as Mary Todd Lincoln. In this mega... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Shah by Abbas Milani Publisher Comments Though his monarchy was toppled in 1979 and he died in 1980, Mohammad-Reza Shah Pahlevi, the last Shah of Iran, remains relevant today. He was a social reformer, a romantic egomaniac, and a deeply conflicted man and leader. Here, internationally... (read more) Your price: $18.00 New - Trade Paper
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In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir by Dick Cheney Publisher Comments In his enlightening and provocative memoir—a stately page-turner with flashes of surprising humor, remarkable candor, and powerful resonance—former Vice President Dick Cheney takes readers through his experiences as family man... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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Mrs. Kennedy and Me by Clint Hill Publisher Comments HE CALLED HER MRS. KENNEDY. SHE CALLED HIM MR. HILL. For four years, from the election of John Fitzgerald Kennedy in November 1960 until after the election of Lyndon Johnson in 1964, Clint Hill was the Secret Service agent assigned to guard the glamorous... (read more) Your price: $26.00 New - Hardcover
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A Song in the Night: A Memoir of Resilience by Bob Massie Publisher Comments In this inspiring memoir of faith and perseverance, Bob Massie recounts how a childhood illness laid the foundation for a life filled with compassion and activism. Bob Massie was born with classical hemophilia, a painful disorder that caused repeated... (read more) Your price: $24.00 New - Hardcover
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The Last Lion, Volume 2: Winston Spencer Churchill Alone 1932-1940 by William Manchester Publisher Comments Alone is the second volume in William Manchester's projected three-volume biography of Winston Churchill, The Last Lion, the first volume of which was critically acclaimed: Manchester has such control over a huge and moving narrative, such... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made by Walter Isaacson Publisher Comments Six close friends shaped the role their country would play in the dangerous years following World War II. They were the original best and brightest, whose towering intellects, outsize personalities, and dramatic actions would bring order to the postwar... (read more) Your price: $35.00 New - Hardcover
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A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mother by Janny Scott Publisher Comments A major publishing event: an unprecedented look into the life of the woman who most singularly shaped Barack Obama-his mother. Barack Obama has written extensively about his father, but little is known about Stanley Ann Dunham, the fiercely independent... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Known and Unknown: A Memoir by Donald Rumsfeld Publisher Comments "If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much." - Rumsfeld's Rules Few Americans have spent more time near the center of power than Donald Rumsfeld. Now he has written an unflinching memoir of his half-century career, sharing previously... (read more) List Price $36.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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Hitler, 1889-1936 : Hubris (98 Edition) by Ian Kershaw Publisher Comments From his illegitimate birth in a small Austrian village to his fiery death in a bunker under the Reich chancellery in Berlin, Adolf Hitler left a murky trail, strewn with contradictory tales and overgrown with self-created myths. One truth prevails: the... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $13.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela by Nelson Mandela Publisher Comments These are riveting memoirs of one of the great moral and political figures of our time, an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Trampling Out the Vintage: Cesar Chavez and the Two Souls of the United Farm Workers by Frank Bardacke Publisher Comments The slogan "Yes, we can"--in the form "¡Sí, Se Puede!"--doesn't originate with Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign. It goes back more than four decades to the heyday of the United Farm Workers, an organization that at its height won many labor... (read more) Your price: $54.95 New - Hardcover
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After Camelot: A Personal History of the Kennedy Family 1968 to the Present by J. Randy Taraborrelli Publisher Comments For more than half a century, Americans have been captivated by the Kennedys - their joy and heartbreak, tragedy and triumph, the dark side and the remarkable achievements. In this ambitious and sweeping account, Taraborelli continues the family... (read more) Your price: $29.99 New - Hardcover
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Benjamin Disraeli (Jewish Encounters) by Adam Kirsch Publisher Comments A dandy, a best-selling novelist, and a man of political and sexual intrigue, Benjamin Disraeli was one of the most captivating figures of the nineteenth century. His flirtation with proto-Zionism, his ideas about power and empire, and his fantasies... (read more) Your price: $21.00 New - Hardcover
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The Strong Man: John Mitchell and the Secrets of Watergate by James Rosen Publisher Comments The Strong Man is the first full-scale biography of John N. Mitchell, the central figure in the rise and ruin of Richard Nixon and the highest-ranking American official ever convicted on criminal charges. As U.S. attorney general from 1969 to 1972, John... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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Alger Hiss: Why He Chose Treason by Christina Shelton Publisher Comments In 1948, former U.S. State Department official Alger Hiss was accused of being a Soviet spy. Because the statute of limitations on espionage had run out, he was convicted only of perjury. Decades later—after the Hiss trial had been long... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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Autobiography (Penguin Classics) by John Stuart Mill Synopsis An autobiography by John Stuart Mill, prolific journalist, brilliant logician, philosopher, liberal MP, and pioneer of women's suffrage, whose remarkable educational feats caused him a severe mental crisis in his thirties.... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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Son of Hamas: A Gripping Account of Terror, Betrayal, Political Intrigue, and Unthinkable Choices by Mosab Hassan Yousef Synopsis The oldest son of Sheikh Hassan Yousef, a founding member of Hamas, reveals new information about the world's most dangerous terrorist organization, unveils the truth about his own role in the organization, and explains his dangerous decision to make his... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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Gandhi and the Unspeakable: His Final Experiment with Truth by James W. Douglass Publisher Comments In 1948, at the dawn of his country's independence, Mohandas Gandhi, father of the Indian independence movement and a beloved prophet of nonviolence, was assassinated by Hindu nationalists. In riveting detail, author James W. Douglass shows as he... (read more) Your price: $24.00 New - Hardcover
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Legacy of Luna: The Story of a Tree, a Woman and the Struggle to Save the Redwoods by Julia Butterfly Hill Publisher Comments On December 18, 1999, Julia Butterfly Hill's feet touched the ground for the first time in over two years, as she descended from "Luna," a thousandyear-old redwood in Humboldt County, California. Hill had climbed 180 feet up into the tree high on a... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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